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I grew up watching an edition of this on VHS. Was very pleased a while back to rediscover it in adulthood (and with an expired copyright, no less). In a cultur

I grew up watching an edition of this on VHS. Was very pleased a while back to rediscover it in adulthood (and with an expired copyright, no less). In a culture where animation is dominated by descendants of the Disney style, it’s fascinating to see what flair the Fleischers put into their work. Here are some additional recommendations from Fleischer Studios: Superman: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydQRjWSfL5cXxt6hgOvUyxLvWn5R3fNx https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydQRjWSfL5cXxt6hgOvU... Betty Boop as Snow White (with rotoscoped dancing from Cab Calloway): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOSJ5AAwfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOSJ5AAwfc

darepublic 3y ago
The Betty Boop vids with Cab Calloway music (ie for Minnie the moocher, st James infirmary) are all fantastic. Really hammers home how technological advances are not clean complete steps forward. There is a trade off in terms of quality or expression in the convenience/speed gained. I suppose handrawn animated films had not reached their peak yet but I still see some flair present in these thirties films that can't be found even during the Disney heyday of the nineties. And of course now animated cartoons have really taken a step back with the CGI stuff. Though perhaps AI will change this. Then the only thing lost will be this type of craftsmanship encoded in the human brain